The development of your baby –

You must be terrifically anxious to know what your baby looks like inside. By this week your baby is beginning to grow his fingers and toes, well separated and easily distinguishable. Your baby can now flex his arms at the joints (wrist and elbow). Your baby’s eyes are now becoming more definite as they have started developing colour or pigment in the back of the eye (what doctors would normally refer to as the retina). At this point of time the baby is not big enough to accommodate the lengthening intestines so they begin to protrude towards the umbilical cord and this will remain till around the twelfth week. By this time, the buds that grow into the genital parts of the baby in the following months also appear. However they are still not developed enough for you to know if your baby will be a girl or a boy.

The development of your body –

Obviously after the past few weeks of wondering whether you are pregnant, by now you are definite that you are. You must have by now even carried out the several pregnancy tests to ensure that you are expecting a baby now. Now is the time for you to plan your first prenatal visit. It is best you pick one health care specialist who will take care of you and guide you for the whole of your pregnancy rather than swap from one to another. Make sure the specialist you pick is going to be available whenever you are in need. If you belong to the category of women who have not been very lucky with pregnancy for a while, had a number of miscarriages, are prone to complications or are over the age of 35 years, your doctor would want to see you at frequent intervals than that of a healthier woman. Do not neglect this case and be careful and make it a point that you do visit the doctor as frequently as you have been asked to. It is important that you are monitored during the prenatal stage so make sure you give it as much importance as it deserves.

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